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Eastern Mediterranean, showing Adriana ' s route and Kalamata, Messenia, where survivors were taken. The Italy-bound "rusted, aging", overloaded migrant boat was a fishing trawler, [8] named Adriana, [a] [42] that was estimated to be around 20 to 30 metres (66 to 98 ft) long. [43]
Migrants aboard an inflatable vessel before their rescue co-ordinated by USS Carney near Spain in February 2013. This article is a list of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea leading up to and resulting from the European migrant crisis with recent migration also related to developments such as the Arab Spring protests (2010–2012), civil wars in Syria (since 2011) and Libya ...
The Anadolu Agency said that the boat carried "some 200 people", [14] while survivors stated that the number was between 150 and 240. [12] The boat sank while attempting to land after it crashed into rocks in rough weather conditions. Video footage of the incident shows timber from the boat broken into pieces and floating along the beach.
About 70 Muslim Rohingya refugees are feared missing or dead from a boat that made a grueling sea voyage from Bangladesh and sank off Indonesia’s coast this week with 75 survivors, U.N. agencies ...
On 25 April 2023, two migrant boats bound for Europe capsized off the coast of western Libya, claiming at least 57 lives.Until the 2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster in June, it represented the deadliest migrant sea crossing in the last six years.
On 15 December 2010, an Indonesian fishing boat (known as the Janga and referred to as SIEV-221 by Australian Government authorities) carrying 89 asylum seekers and 3 crew members sank after being dashed against the rocks near Rocky Point, Christmas Island, an external Australian territory. 50 people died and 42 were rescued. The incident was ...
Last week, a fishing boat packed with about 750 men, women and children capsized off the coast of Greece, with hundreds believed to have died Obama calls out obsession with Titanic sub while ...
On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. It was reported that the boat had sailed from Misrata, Libya, but that many of the migrants were originally from Eritrea, Somalia and Ghana. [2] [3] [4] An emergency response involving the Italian Coast Guard resulted in the rescue of 155 ...